| AGAPITO, eleventh in descent from Pietro Colonna, who lived in 1100. | = | Caterina Conti. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oddo, elected Martin V. in 1407, d. 1431. | Lorenzo Onofrio | = | Sueva Gaetani da Fondi. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Odoardo, Duke of Marsi. | = | Filippa Conti. | Antonio, Duke of Paliano, d. 1471. | = | Imperiale Colonna. | Caterina, d. 1438. | = § | Guidantonio, Count of Urbino. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lorenzo Oddone, d. 1484. | Fabrizio, Grand Constable of Naples, d. 1520. | = | Agnese di Montefeltro, d. 1522. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Muzio, d. 1516. | Sciarra. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ascanio, Grand Constable of Naples, claimant of Urbino, d. 1557. | = § | Giovanna d’Aragona, natural branch of the Crown of Naples. | Vittoria, b. 1490, d. 1548. | = | Ferdinando, Fr. Marquis of Pescara, d. 1525. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Girolamo | = | Vittoria Conti. | Cardinal Giovanni, d. 1508 | Pierantonio | = | Bernardina Conti. | Prospero, d. 1523. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cardinal Pompeo, d. 1532. | Ottaviano. | Marcello. | Giulio. | Marc Antonio | = | Lucrezia Gara della Rovere. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marzio, d. 1546. | Ottavia | = | Sigismondo Varana, d. 1522. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FOOTNOTES
[1] Our chief authorities for this tragic scene are Machiavelli's despatches and separate narrative, with the Diaries of Burchard, Buonaccorsi, and Sanuto. Some details are taken from the Ricordi of Padre Gratio, guardian of the Monastery delle Grazie at Sinigaglia, a contemporary, and probably an eye-witness to many of them. Vat. Urb. MSS. 1023, art. 17.[*A]
[*A] Cf. Madiai, Diario delle Cose di Urbino, in Arch. St. per le Marche e per l'Umbria, tom. III., p. 437. Machiavelli, who was with Cesare at the time, describes the massacre of Sinigaglia as "il bellissimo inganno di Sinigaglia." Cesare wrote an account of it to Isabella d'Este. Cf. her letter to her husband (D'Arco, Notizie di Isabella Estense, in Arch. St. Ital., ser. i., App., vol. I., No. II. (1845), p. 262).
[2] Our version is from the original letter. Nearly similar in purport, but much shorter, is a despatch written by him to the Doge of Venice on the very night of the raid, so anxious was he to conciliate the Signory.
[*3] It is unlikely that Machiavelli abetted the massacre, though he certainly approved it dispassionately enough. By it the Papacy was rid at last of the houses of Colonna and Orsini. Cesare met Machiavelli after the affair "with the best cheer in the world," reminding him that he had given him a hint of his intentions, but adding, "I did not tell you all." He urged on Machiavelli his desire for a firm alliance with Florence. Cf. Machiavelli, Legazione al Valentino, Lett. 86, and the Modo tenuto dal Duca Valentino nel ammazzare Vitellozzo. See also Creighton, op. cit., vol V., p. 40.
[4] Vermiglioli: Vita di Malatesta Baglioni.
[*5] The schemes of Cesare were in his age no more unscrupulously carried out than Bismarck's in his. "It is well," said Cesare, "to beguile those who have shown themselves to be masters of treachery."
[*6] Cf. Lisini, Cesare Borgia e la repubblica di Siena, in the Boll. Senese di Stor. Pat., ann. VII. (fasc. I.), pp. 114, 115, and 144 et seq. for all the documents. And for a short but excellent account in English of the whole Sienese affair, Langton Douglas, A History of Siena (Murray, 1902), p. 206 et seq.